Most of the inspiration for our film came from the brief itself. While we knew that we were limited in terms of location and casting, we thought that a news reporter being lured into Grindleford would be a good idea as it would not only be original but fun to film and an easy storyline to create.
Nightcrawler is a film that I watched that partially inspired me when writing the screenplay, although to an opposite end. The killer would be the one moving and placing the bodies to make sure that the reporter was in frame directly to be framed himself. The mixed nature of 'live found footage' in the genre is something that we experimented with. For example, when our female character picks up the camera that he has dropped in the woods in shock at actually finding a body it then switches between the camera's POV and a normal camera view. This is something that we are going to have to play around with a lot to make it look realistic.
Woods are often a place where serial murders occur, and when Lauren and I spoke about this we automatically thought of the 'mushroom' farm in NBC's Hannibal. Although too far fetched and also out of our league to recreate anything similar, this was our inspiration for setting the serial murders in Grindleford and the Peak District area (as mentioned in the script and dialogue)
As for the ending shot, we were influenced by Psycho where the camera is tracked out of the face. We are going to be attempting to do the same thing with a slider and two tripods instead of taking the track.
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